Savage Secret

() The old cow was surprised: "Why are there so many dead people? Who the hell did it?"

I shook my head slightly, and turned my gaze to those lynxes: the lynx's eyes were piercing, vivid, and their shape was majestic, in stark contrast to the hideous and withered corpses.

The old cow also seemed to have noticed this problem, and asked in confusion: "Are you saying that these bobcats are alive or dead? If they are dead, why do they look the same as live ones? If they are alive, why do they not move?" I also want to know the answer to this question that Niu asked. It is too uncomfortable to be stared at by a dozen motionless bobcats with wide eyes.I broke off a branch and fiddled with the lynx's body gently, saying that these lynx are dead, their fur and body are very soft, and that they are alive, but they are no different from dead.With a wry smile, I gave an unexpected answer: "They are probably some bobcats in a daze!"

The old cow seemed to have discovered the problem: "Tie Yan, why do you think they can't die?"

"Did you not rest in peace? Maybe it's because they died too fast, before they came and closed their eyes!" Speaking of this, I looked at the dozen or so bobcats with angry eyes in front of me. Could it be that they all died in an instant? It was killed by someone, and then it was made into a specimen and placed here, but this is not right, who the hell is idle, it hurts, I have nothing to play with this, besides, the price of bobcat leather is not low, why kill the bobcat Didn't those people peel off these skins?

Li Yongsheng came over, eating half of a Tujia pancake, and said, "What are you two looking at? So concentrate, eat something quickly, so we can continue on our way!"

I was about to turn my head to answer him, but I shivered involuntarily, because I seemed to see the bobcat closest to me move just now.

The lynx is still in place, and its shape is exactly the same as before. There seems to be nothing unusual. Did I see it wrong just now?With doubts, I asked Lao Niu: "Old Niu, did you see the lynx moving just now?" After hearing what I said, Lao Niu immediately raised the [-] big cover and pointed it at the lynx: " I thought I was delusional, but you have seen it too!"

I signaled the old cow not to be nervous, and picked up the branch and poked at the bobcat's body, wanting to see whether the thing was dead or alive, but unexpectedly the branch plunged into the bobcat's body.My first feeling is that these bobcats are definitely not flesh and blood, because the hardness and sharpness of the branches are absolutely impossible to pierce through the bobcat's fur easily.I shook the branch in the bobcat's body, and the cracks on the bobcat's body were getting bigger and bigger. Looking at the tissue structure at the cracks, I felt that it had the characteristics of fungi like mushrooms.As the branch swayed, some scarlet gas slowly spewed out from the Bobcat's body. When I pulled the branch back, the Bobcat trembled slightly, and the wound opened by the branch slowly healed automatically, but its But the stomach screamed "Gurr, grunt!", like the sound that people make when they are hungry.

I never thought that this lynx would be so weird. I couldn't help but take a step back, but I felt it touched someone.When I turned my head to look, Li Yongsheng and Tian Yuan were standing behind me with incredulous expressions on their faces.No one spoke, and I suddenly felt that the forest was very quiet, as if all the birds and beasts had died.

Finally, the old cow stared at me and asked me: "Tie Yan, what is in the Bobcat's stomach? How can it make a sound?"

"Maybe it's too hungry and wants to eat!" I responded indiscriminately, trying to plunge the branch into the bobcat's body to see clearly, but suddenly blood was coming out from under the bobcat's stomach!

Isn't this thing dead? How could there be blood?Are they really just dead?After the blood flowed from the bobcat's body to the ground, the soil below exploded immediately, and a string of tiny blood bubbles appeared from "Zizi", as if it had a violent chemical reaction with the soil, and the state and sulfuric acid dripped onto the ground The appearance is similar, but the color of the two is different.

The small blood bubbles rolled and exploded, and a faint red mist rose up. The red mist slowly dissipated in the air. In addition to the faint smell of blood, there was also the smell of herbs.

The blood dripped more and more, and the blood bubbles rolled and flowed quickly, showing a metallic luster under the bobcat's body, like a bronze box. The copper box was slightly longer than the bobcat's body, more than a foot wide, and engraved with ancient Symbols and cloud and thunder patterns, the earliest history of this kind of pattern can be traced back to before the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. As the saying goes, the emperor and the courtiers of each dynasty have different hobbies and beliefs. This kind of pattern looks simple and thick, but also too clumsy , and basically no dynasty used it again. Could it be that the box under the Bobcat was before the Shang and Zhou dynasties?I tapped the box a few times with a wooden stick, and there was a very dull sound from it, which sounded very heavy.

On the bronze box stood four copper sheaths more than ten centimeters high, each about the thickness of an arm, and the four paws of the lynx just stepped on the copper sheath, which gave me an illusion that the box and the lynx seemed to be a whole .

The more I looked at it, the more strange it became. Whether it is the eyes of a human or an animal, they are the most important organs. When a person dies, the pupils diffuse and lose light, then become cloudy and lose color until they rot.And the bobcats in front of me are lifelike, their eyes are condensed and energetic, and they definitely don’t seem to have been dead for a long time. If they were really something before the Shang and Zhou dynasties, I’m afraid they should have no bones left. Why can they stand in the wind and rain for more than 3000 years? ?

I was surprised: "Could it be that the lynx has something to do with the bronze box under it?"

"It's so damn evil, smash them all, and move out the copper box below, so you can see it clearly!" The old cow said, hanging the gun on his body, and walked to the side of the bobcat Son, trying to grab the bronze trays under their bodies.

Li Yongsheng, who hadn't opened his mouth all this time, suddenly looked nervous and said, "Don't move, that's the mausoleum protection grass? It's poisonous!"

When the old cow heard Li Yongsheng's shout, he immediately stopped his hands: "What is Hulingcao? What's the connection with these bobcats?"

Li Yongsheng said intently: "I also remembered those bronze sacrificial vessels under the bodies of these bobcats. In ancient times, in order to prevent the tombs of tribal leaders or nobles from being destroyed by insects, ants, snakes, and rats, wizards would place After killing some ferocious cats, put some special medicinal herbs and poisonous insects into their bodies, then put them in the posture of some guards, nail them to death on bronze sacrificial vessels, and place them around the mausoleum!"

I interrupted: "That's not right, aren't these ancient mausoleum beasts you're talking about? How did they become mausoleum-protecting grasses?"

Li Yongsheng pointed to the bobcats and said to Lao Niu: "Zhenling beasts are usually carved from stone, and most of them are just for decoration. But the mausoleum protection grass uses the blood and fierceness of these cats to drive away those who try to approach Its insects and ants, the medicinal herbs and poisonous insects in its body will grow like fungi, and they will connect together underground to form a poisonous geological belt, so that insects, ants, snakes, rats and other things will not cause great damage to the mausoleum. If the poison If it is violent enough, even people may be killed by these poisons, and that brass box should be filled with poison!" According to Li Yongsheng, these bobcats are a kind of pure natural poison barrier that has been processed by people in a special way. Although it has the ability to transform like Cordyceps sinensis, its medicinal properties are quite different. Cordyceps sinensis is a great tonic, but these mausoleum protectors are terrible things.